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...reader of "Eight More Harvard Poets" will find in the volume an epitome of this general chaos. He will find that on generalization about the work of these eight men is possible. Each one of them is worshipping his own god or his own idol; and obviously the Eight do not make a harmonious congregation. This is of course, as it should be: one is glad to note that there is apparently no "Harvard School" of poetry...
...fine vigorous ballad manner, in his best work, that it very attractive. And he does something that not all young poets do,--he writes as if he really had something he wanted to say to us. His poems are too long to quote here; but the reader will do well to look him up in the book...
...undergraduates agree with him. The mid-year period is one of those times. Now many men are facing their first important college examinations, others are puzzling over the sort of questions the hitherto unknown professor is likely to ask and the sort of answers the even less known reader is likely to enjoy; meanwhile the Library is uncovering the thumbed and torn papers of years gone...
...became prosperous, he became also a reader and collector of precious books, until his library numbered five thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year...
There is little need of considering "Le Misanthrope", which was performed by Mile. Sorel and her associates as the third bill of their repertory this week at any length as a play, for doubtless every reader will recall from the hours of school or college courses this the wittiest of all Moliere's dramatic work. For those who have forgotten, a glance at any of its editions in one of the "modern language" series will recall its brilliant satiric arraignment of the foibles of society, its unusual insight into the souls of men and women, and its succession of significantly...